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Hey all,
My name is Jake Dahn and I built TeamLeaderboard with my wife @jessicagillis5 :)
About 2 months ago one of my coworkers had come up with the idea to use slack reactions as a way to reward teammates for good deeds. We tried it out for a few days but decided that we needed something more to make it stick and pull everyone in.
So I set out to build a prototype just for our team, and within a day everyone in the company had changed their behavior and started trying to do things to get :+1: emojis. It was a lot of fun, so I thought that other slack teams might also appreciate the idea.
That is how TeamLeaderboard was born.

@samuelcouch That's a great idea! I hope to add a more publicly friendly API soon.
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While it isn't obvious, or really supported, you can sort of make this happen today!
Behind the scenes of the ui is a basic API that is in the process of being fleshed out. In your browser if you open up the web inspector and look for the HTTP request to `https://api.teamleaderboard.us/a...` you can look in the request headers and get your json web token. You can use this token to make requests against the API to get information about your team.
`curl 'https://api.teamleaderboard.us/a...' -H 'Authorization: jwt your.jsonwebtoken.here'`